"she was ""overwhelmed"", and added: ""Any woman who says they don't like being called sexy, they're lying."" By 2002, the list was attracting over five million votes – that year, Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova was number one. A further five million votes were cast the following year, when the American actress Halle Berry was named as the world's sexiest. At 36 years old, Berry was the oldest woman ever to top the list. She responded: ""Wow, that's a pretty heady title. I'm not so sure I live up to it, but thank you anyway."" The first British woman to"
"Louise Redknapp, who had placed on every 100 Sexiest list since 1996. Ten years later, in May 2014, ""FHM"" produced a list of the ""Sexiest Women of All Time"", compiled using a new analysis based on the previous 20 years' worth of polls. The winner was the English singer Rachel Stevens. Stevens had been featured on 11 lists at that point, but had never been placed first on any of the annual lists, instead peaking at number two in 2001, 2002, and 2004. On learning the result, she remarked: ""To win this award feels absolutely amazing. ... It's brilliant."" FHM's"
"serve as sideline reporter for Philadelphia Union games and has become a team ambassador. Mitts scored 2 goals in international matches, which are both game winners. Mitts is known for her athletic ability and her looks, and as a result, has delved into the world of modeling. In 2001, Mitts was voted as the sexiest player in the WUSA on Playboy Online. In addition, she appeared on the cover of ""Philadelphia"" magazine in June 2002 as one of the city's ""Sexiest Singles."" In 2004, she was voted ESPN.com’s ""Hottest Female Athlete"". She also appeared in the 2005 ""Sports Illustrated"" Swimsuit"
"included the British singer Cheryl, the American actress Halle Berry, and Jennifer Lopez. At 36 years old, Berry was the oldest woman ever to top the listing, while Lopez was the first to top it more than once. By the time ""FHM"" ceased publication of its print edition in January 2016, the 100 Sexiest Women list had been compiled 21 times. The current holder of the Sexiest Woman title is the Israeli actress Gal Gadot. Alongside the 100 Sexiest Women list, ""FHM"" has also twice published a ""Most Eligible Bachelorettes"" list, in 2006 and 2007, to celebrate qualities such as"
"Porter onto the front of the Palace of Westminster. An ""FHM"" spokesman remarked: ""We want to up the voting frenzy for the poll ... It is a cheeky way of increasing interest."" Porter was placed at number eight in the chart that year, while the American actress Sarah Michelle Gellar was number one. The first person to top the 100 Sexiest Women list more than once was the American singer Jennifer Lopez, who was placed at number one in both 2000 and 2001. Speaking about being named the sexiest woman in the world for a second year running, Lopez said"
"could."" Henry Hutton of the ""Independent Tribune"" noted that when Patrick entered IndyCar in 2005, she rapidly became a pop culture icon largely due to her gender and modelling, but her driver profile depreciated from car problems, racetrack accidents and uncompetitiveness. She is outspoken, and quick-tempered, but self-deprecating. She has been a magazine cover model for ""FHM"" and ""Sports Illustrated"" and ranked highly on beauty lists and in polls, about female athletes. ""People"" magazine named her one of the most beautiful people in the world in 2006. The following year, Patrick was voted the sexiest athlete in the Victoria's Secret"
"top the listing was the model Kelly Brook, who was named the world's sexiest in 2005, the most successful poll to that point. , Brook has been featured in the top ten of ""FHM"" 100 Sexiest Women ten times, more than any other entrant. The 2011 list was noted for being the first to include a man; the androgynous model Andrej Pejić was voted at number 98 on the poll. ""FHM"" caused controversy when the entry's accompanying blurb warned its readers to ""pass the sick bucket"" and described Pejic as a ""thing"". Following a backlash, ""FHM"" removed the text from"
"the 2003 issue, tennis player Serena Williams and figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva were featured inside the magazine. In 2016, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey became the first female athlete to appear on the cover. However, Anna Kournikova appeared in an inset on the 2004 cover, and had a photo spread within its pages. In 2005, Olympic gold medalists Amanda Beard and Jennie Finch, along with Lauren Jackson and Venus Williams, were featured. Maria Sharapova appeared in an inset on the 2006 cover and had a spread inside. In spring 2006, ""Sports Illustrated"" chose music as the theme for the 2007 issue."
"career she retired from running but wanted to become the first woman ever to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics, by competing in and winning the inaugural two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2002 Winter Olympics. In late 2001, however, she was found guilty of having recently used banned drugs and barred from competition for two years. Her admission of drug use, though only during the recent part of her bobsleigh effort, made her a very controversial person in Sweden and considering that she had tested positive for banned drugs once before, during her days as a"
"| 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.<BR> 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.<BR> <br> Marion Jones (USA) finished second in the 100m in 10.85 and first in the 200m in 22.39, but she was disqualified in 2005 after she admitted to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal. <br> 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 Natalya Sadova of Russia"
"FHM's 100 Sexiest Women (UK) ""FHM"" 100 Sexiest Women is an annual listing compiled by the monthly British men's lifestyle magazine ""FHM"", based on which women they believe to be the ""sexiest"". , each year's list is first announced through a section on ""FHM"" official website, FHM.com. The first listing was published in 1995 and was voted for by a panel of 250 judges; the inaugural winner was the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer. From 1996 to 2015, the poll was instead voted for by the general public, with, at its height, several million votes being cast each year. Subsequent winners"
"were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous. The inaugural winner of the Best Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was American snowboarder Kelly Clark at the 2002 edition. During 2001 and 2002, she won seven major worldwide snowboarding competitions, which included the gold medal in the women's halfpipe at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and first place at the Winter X Games. Clark became the first female snowboarder to be nominated for, and hence to win,"
"The first 100 Sexiest Women list was published in 1995, and was compiled exclusively by a panel of 250 judges; the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer topped the inaugural chart. The following year's poll was the first to be opened up to the general public – a total of 10,000 votes were cast, with the American actress Gillian Anderson being announced as the winner that September. A spokesman for ""FHM"" described her as the ""thinking man's crumpet"" and a ""surprise winner""; Anderson had posed half-naked on the front cover of the magazine earlier that year. Over subsequent years, the list's popularity"
"Who Run TV,"" calling her ""the funniest woman in the free world."" ""EW"" quoted Mindy Kaling as saying, ""I always feel unoriginal bringing up Tina as my inspiration, but she's everyone's inspiration for a reason."" The column also quoted praise by Zooey Deschanel and Lena Dunham. In 2002, Fey was ranked in the Hot 100 List at number 80 on ""Maxim"" magazine, which used photos taken earlier by ""Rolling Stone"" calling her ""the thinking man's sex symbol"". She was named one of ""People magazine's"" 50 Most Beautiful People in 2003, and continued as one of ""People"" magazine's 100 Most Beautiful"
"2000 Summer Olympics and the World Championships in Athletics in 1999 and 2001, finishing in the top ten each time. In 2001, she also won the East Asian Games title and a bronze medal at the 2001 Summer Universiade. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan but competed for Shanxi regionally. A severe injury to her right shoulder in 2002 brought an early end to her career. Upon reflection she said the injury enabled her to break from a life dedicated to training and start a family with her husband. She became involved with the sport again in 2012, coaching and"
"stars for the December 2016/January 2017 Swimsuit Edition for Esquire Mexico. Genevieve Morton Genevieve Morton (born 9 July 1986 in Benoni) is a South African model. Morton was voted the sexiest woman in the World in 2012 by ""FHM"" South Africa readers and was named one of the top 50 swimsuit models of all time by ""Sports Illustrated"" in 2014. Morton was born in Benoni, in the South African province of Gauteng, and from there moved to Scottburgh at the age of twelve where she grew up. Morton shot for South African ""Sport Illustrated"" for the first time in 2008"
"""talent, star quality and cash"". These lists were topped by the American actress Mischa Barton and the American socialite Kimberly Stewart, respectively. To commemorate the 10th and 20th anniversaries of the 100 Sexiest Women list, two one-off charts were compiled in April 2004 and May 2014, respectively, to recognise the sexiest women up to those points. The winner of the 2004 list was the English singer Louise Redknapp, who had placed on every 100 Sexiest list since 1996, while the 2014 chart topper was the English singer Rachel Stevens, who had peaked at number two in 2001, 2002, and 2004."
"Girls Scouts, and Kaplan Thaler Group; and the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charms for the Easy Life, Damaged Care, Homeless to Harvard, and The Division. Additionally, Julie Foudy, the Captain of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team, was given an award. The 2002 EPIC Awards, in its inaugural year, honored those who presented positive images of women leaders in pop culture venues: Dr. Renee Poussaint, Camille Cosby, Geraldine Laybourne, Ted Nelson, Mullen Advertising, Walter Anderson, Jenifer Lewis, and Tammy Ader. Additionally, Val Ackerman was given an award for showcasing female athletes as persistent, tough, and effective. The White House"
"Florence Griffith Joyner Florence Delorez Griffith–Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand. During the late 1980s she became a popular figure in international track and field because of her record-setting performances and flashy personal style. Griffith-Joyner was born and raised in California. She was athletic from a young age. She attended California State"
"FIFA Female Player of the Century FIFA Female Player of the Century was a one-off award created by the global governing body FIFA to decide the greatest football female player of the 20th century, announced at the annual FIFA World gala, held in Rome on 11 December 2000. American player Michelle Akers and Chinese player Sun Wen were joint winners of the award. Michelle Akers won the award based on votes from FIFA officials, journalists and coaches, while Sun Wen won the award based on the Internet poll. Since 1991, FIFA has been awarding honors for FIFA World Player of"
"was best known for, and that it had ""helped propel the careers of many well-known actresses, musicians and models"". Subsequent 100 Sexiest Women lists have been compiled by ""FHM"" writers themselves, and have been published on FHM.com. , the most recent winner is Gal Gadot. Alongside the 100 Sexiest Women list, ""FHM"" also twice published a ""Most Eligible Bachelorettes"" list, which compiled women based on their ""eligibility"" and was voted for by the magazine's readership. Unlike the 100 Sexiest Women list, this list also considered qualities such as ""talent, star quality and cash"" as well as sex appeal in its"
"Chyna Chyna (born Joan Marie Laurer; December 27, 1969 – April 20, 2016) was an American professional wrestler, glamour model, pornographic film actress, actress, and bodybuilder. Chyna first rose to prominence in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1997, where she was billed as the ""Ninth Wonder of the World"" (André the Giant was already billed as the eighth). A founding member of the stable D-Generation X as the promotion's first female enforcer, she held the WWF Intercontinental Championship (the only female performer to do so) twice and the WWF Women's Championship once. She was also the first"
"Performance Yearly Awards. In 2003, Finch received the most votes in an ESPN online poll as the most attractive female athlete. In 2004, ""People"" magazine named Finch one of its ""50 Most Beautiful People"", the only female athlete in the list. ""This is truly amazing to be recognized by ""People"" magazine for this honor,"" Finch said. ""It is really special to be included among some of the most famous and beautiful people in the world. I still have a hard time believing that I was selected as part of this group."" Finch has modeled swimwear for the ""Sports Illustrated Swimsuit"
"was a surprising win because she beat the favorite German Franziska van Almsick. Dagmar Hase, also from Germany, won the bronze. In 1997, she was named by ""Swimming World Magazine"" as the Female Swimmer of the Year. At the Sydney 2000, Poll continued with her medal run and won two bronze medals. In Athens 2004, she just missed out on the 400 m freestyle final, finishing ninth in the heats. In 2002, she was given a four-year doping ban after a failed test for norandrosterone, a metabolite the steroid nandrolone. Her ban was later reduced by FINA to two years."
"and Valentina Chepiga. The 2001 pro schedule opened routinely enough, with Vickie Gates winning the Ms. International title for the third consecutive year. However, the Ms. Olympia featured a ""surprise"" winner, as Juliette Bergmann returned to competition at age 42. Bergmann, the 1986 Pro World champion, had not competed since 1989. Entering the Olympia as a lightweight, she defeated heavyweight winner Iris Kyle for the overall title. In the five years that the Ms. Olympia was contested in multiple weight classes, this was the only time that the lightweight winner took the overall title. In 2002, six-time Olympia winner Lenda"
"a select panel of sports writers vote for their top overall athlete. The poll was suspended for four years during the Second World War after the CP decided it could not name a sporting ""hero"" at a time when Canadian soldiers were fighting in Europe. Figure skater Barbara Ann Scott was the first woman to lead the poll three times, accomplishing the feat in consecutive years between 1946 and 1948. That total was matched by speed skater Catriona Le May Doan in 2002. Golfer Marlene Streit finished top of the poll the most times, winning on five occasions between 1952"
"media"", although she herself has stated the contrary: ""I don't talk about my private life."" In a 2004 BBC poll, Knightley was named among the most influential people in British culture. Knightley has been listed as one of the ""100 Sexiest Women in the World"" by FHM on multiple occasions. She made her first appearance on the list in 2004, and was named ""the sexiest woman in the world"" in 2006. She was included in every subsequent issue up until 2009. She was a part of the American editions of the list from 2004 to 2006, and was also placed"
"continued to grow. The 1998 poll was voted on by half a million readers, with its companion issue being sold sealed inside a plastic cover. Martin Daubney, a former features editor of ""FHM"", noted that this added a ""sense of mystique and occasion"" to the issue, which went on to sell 936,000 copies. The issue's cover girl was the British TV presenter Cat Deeley, who had placed at number seven; the 100 Sexiest winner was ""Playboy"" model Jenny McCarthy. The following year, ""FHM"" publicists promoted the poll by projecting a 60 ft naked image of the British TV presenter Gail"
"Championships in Athletics. While Emma George had a bad day competitively, Stacy took not only the gold medal but George's world record, which George would never get back. With the new rule allowing indoor marks to be counted as world records, Stacy continued to improve the world record and held it continuously for almost four years, save a 6-day period when Svetlana Feofanova took the record in the 2001 indoor season. Yelena Isinbayeva finally took the record in 2003 and is still the current world record holder. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the first gold medal in women's"
"forward Mia Hamm, finished in the top three in voting for both awards. Hamm finished behind Sun Wen (footballer) in the Internet Award balloting, and third behind both Akers and Sun in the Player of the Century voting. FIFA Female Player of the Century FIFA Female Player of the Century was a one-off award created by the global governing body FIFA to decide the greatest football female player of the 20th century, announced at the annual FIFA World gala, held in Rome on 11 December 2000. American player Michelle Akers and Chinese player Sun Wen were joint winners of the"
"Michelle Akers Michelle Anne Akers (born February 1, 1966) is an American former soccer player, who starred in the historic 1991 and 1999 Women's World Cup victories by the United States. She won the Golden Boot as the top scorer in the 1991 tournament. Akers is regarded as one of the greatest female soccer players of all time. She was named FIFA Female Player of the Century in 2002, an award she shared with China's Sun Wen. In 2004, Akers and Mia Hamm were the only two women named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living"
"remains her nation's most decorated Olympian. However, her victories were overshadowed by doping allegations even though she did not test positive in 1996. She received a four-year suspension in 1998 for tampering with a urine sample, though her medals and records were allowed to stand. In track and field, Donovan Bailey of Canada won the men's 100 m, setting a new world record of 9.84 seconds at that time. He also anchored his team's gold in the 4 × 100 m relay. Michael Johnson won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m, setting a new world record of"
"""Athlete of the Year"" while earning NCAA Female Track & Field Athlete of the Year honors. Felicien blossomed into a major force on the international scene in hurdling, topping off her season by winning the women's 100 m Hurdles Final at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris, France. With her win, Felicien became Canada's first ever female world gold medallist and the first female in Illinois track & field history to win a gold medal in an individual event at the World Championships. She was named Canada's female athlete of the year – the first track athlete to"